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Authorised form of nameEwart; James Cossar (1851 - 1933)
Dates1851 - 1933
Date of birth26 November 1851
Date of death31/12/1933
ActivityEducation:
MD
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1893
Royal Society activityRoyal Society roles:
VP 1908-1909
Lectures:
Croonian (jointly) 1881
SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1932-1935 vol l pp 189-195, plate, by Francis Hugh Adam Marshall
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/79392302
Royal Society codeNA8364
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1893/05Ewart, James Cossar: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1893/06Ewart, James Cossar: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/15/8Letter from GJ Romanes to George Gabriel Stokes20 June 1881
IM/Maull/001338Ewart, James Cossarnd
NLB/2/666Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company6 October 1888
NLB/41/17Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society24 September 1909
NLB/2/347Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, University of Edinburgh7 May 1888
NLB/2/407Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society4 June 1888
NLB/2/413Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to John Newport Langley, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1888
NLB/2/466Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Lord Rayleigh [John William Strutt, Royal Society]10 July 1888
NLB/2/599Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company25 September 1888
NLB/2/796Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, [Fellow of the Royal Society]7 November 1888
NLB/2/1010Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Cossar Ewart29 January 1889
NLB/2/896Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Edinburgh10 December 1888
NLB/2/499Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society20 July 1888
NLB/3/153Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr Collings, 172 Strand29 March 1889
NLB/7/71Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, 2 Belford Park, Edinburgh22 November 1892
NLB/6/795Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Cambridge Engraving Company14 July 1892
NLB/7/708Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr Collings, 172 Strand12 April 1893
NLB/8/839Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to W Lawton, Marland Villa, Torrington, Devon8 January 1894
RR/17/97Referee's report by James Cossar Ewart, on a paper 'Studies on the development of larval nephridia. Part II.—Polygordius' by Cresswell Shearer[October 1906]
NLB/20/8Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society12 January 1900
NLB/20/671Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society14 June 1900
NLB/20/804Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, The Bungalow, Penicuik, Midlothian12 July 1900
NLB/22/742Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [James Cossar] Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society10 July 1901
NLB/32/76Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1905
NLB/35/496Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society5 June 1907
MC/22/71Letter from [James Cossar] Ewart, University of Edinburgh, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison26 October 1907
NLB/41/584Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society18 January 1910
NLB/39/232Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [James] C [Cossar] Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society14 December 1908
NLB/40/238Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons, St Martin's Lane, WC5 May 1909
NLB/38/486Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society12 August 1908
NLB/40/392Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [James] C [Cossar] Ewart FRS3 June 1909
NLB/40/499Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [James] C [Cossar] Ewart FRS16 June 1909
NLB/40/689Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [James] C [Cossar] Ewart FRS 19 July 1909
NLB/41/474Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society21 December 1909
MC/30/52Letter from [James Cossar] Ewart, University of Edinburgh, to the [Royal Society]20 December 1915
RR/8/288Referee's report by Michael Foster, on the Croonian Lecture 'Observations on the locomotor system of Echinodermata' by George John Romanes and James Cossar Ewart22 May 1881
RR/17/399Referee's report by Charles William Andrews, on a paper 'The possible ancestors of the horses living under domestication' by James Cossar Ewart June 1909
RR/14/226Referee's report by James Cossar Ewart, on a paper 'On the formation of the pelvic plexus, with especial reference to the nervus collector in the genus Mustelus' by Reginald Crundall Punnettnd [January 1900]
RR/15/49Letter from Louis Compton Miall, on a paper 'Variation' by James Cossar Ewart to William Abbott Herdman5 May 1900
NLB/65/827Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James Cossar] Ewart, FRS15 January 1924
RR/10/144Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'On the development of the electric organ of Raia batis' by James Cossar Ewart24 April 1888
NLB/70/859Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James Cossar] Ewart, FRS20 October 1927
NLB/72/252Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [James Cossar] Ewart, FRS8 June 1929
NLB/2/886Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor James Cossar Ewart7 December 1888
NLB/2/405Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster [Royal Society]1 June 1888
NLB/12/739Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to the Direct Photo-Engraving Company, 9 Barnsbury Park, N.11 April 1896
NLB/33/639Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor James Cossar Ewart, Fellow of the Royal Society13 October 1906
NLB/40/632Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor J [James] C [Cossar] Ewart FRS 10 July 1909
RR/17/400Referee's report by Richard Lydekker, on a paper 'The possible ancestors of the horses living under domestication' by James Cossar Ewart 3 June 1909
NLB/22/719Copy letter Sir Michael Foster, to Professor [James Cossar] Ewart, [Fellow of the Royal Society]4 July 1901
PP/4/40Paper, 'On the natural and artificial fertilisation of herring ova' by J [James] Cossar Ewart1884
PP/15/23Paper, 'The cranial nerves of the torpedo. Preliminary note' by J C [James Cossar] Ewart1890
PP/13/33Paper, 'On the cranial nerves of Elasmobranch fishes - preliminary communication' by J [James] Cossar Ewart1889
PP/15/22Paper, 'On the development of the ciliary or motor oculi ganglion' by J [James] Cossar Ewart1890
PP/10/55Paper, 'On rigor mortis in fish, and its relation to putrefaction' by J [James Cossar] Ewart1887
PP/21/10/1Manuscript, 'The electric organ of the skate: Note on an electric centre in the spinal cord' by J [James] Cossar Ewart1893
PP/21/10Paper, 'The electric organ of the skate: Note on an electric centre in the spinal cord' by J [James] Cossar Ewart1893
PP/21/10/2Figures, motor cells by J [James] Cossar Ewart1893
RR/10/145Letter from James Cossar Ewart, to Michael Foster, regarding three papers 'On the development of the electric organ of Raia batis', 'The electric organ of the skate. - On the structure of the electric organ of Raia circularis' and 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart5 June 1888
RR/10/146Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on two papers 'The electric organ of the skate. - On the structure of the electric organ of Raia circularis' and 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart6 June 1888
RR/10/148Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart9 July 1888
RR/10/149Letter from Michael Foster, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart[1888]
RR/11/147Referee's report by John Newport Langley, on a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.–Observations on the structure, relations, progressive development, and growth, of the electric organ of the skate' by James Cossar Ewart30 March 1892
RR/11/148Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on a paper 'The electric organ of the skate.–Observations on the structure, relations, progressive development, and growth, of the electric organ of the skate' by James Cossar Ewart6 April 1892
RR/15/48Referee's report by Louis Compton Miall, on a paper 'Variation' by James Cossar Ewart26 March 1900
RR/15/50Referee's report by Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, on a paper 'Variation' by James Cossar Ewart29 April 1900
RR/21/6Referee's report by James Cossar Ewart, on a paper 'A description of the skull and skeleton of a peculiarly modified rupicaprine antelope (Myotragus balearicus, Bate), with a notice of a new variety, M. balearicus var. major' by Charles William Andrews[September 1914]
RR/10/147Referee's report by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, on two papers 'The electric organ of the skate. - On the structure of the electric organ of Raia circularis' and 'The electric organ of the skate.—The electric organ of Raia radiata' by James Cossar Ewart20 June 1888
NLB/38/542Copy letter from Joseph Larmor and Sir Archibald Geikie, to Henry Frederick Baker, Fellow of the Royal Society, and others16 September 1908
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/32/83Letter from [James Cossar] Ewart, University of Edinburgh, to Robert Harrison, [Royal Society]6 July 1917
MC/22Volume 22 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1907
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